White guy wins after leading voters to believe he’s black

[zEmini]

A politician misleading and lying to the people? Shocking!!

[Korgoth]

That's the truth. Local election people vote based on Party or Race or Sex or whose name comes first on the Ballot, because people dont give a shit and deep down are racist sexist and stupid.

[Jaxi]

This forum is never without its "look at those minorities in bad light" topics.

I think it's more about "look at these people not researching their candidates!"

[Deleted]

Good for him. He played the system and he won.
if people want to vote on race alone and not look into what a candidates values are and someone comes along and takes advantage of this, then they have no one else to blame other than themselves.

Very much agreed. This just shows their stupidity and racism.

[Skippy88]

Reminds me of a story my teacher told us in Politics class. A popular incumbent was retiring so one of the candidates for the job changed his last name to match the incumbent. People just saw the last name and thought it was the incumbent not realizing he was retiring so they voted for him. He won. I don't remember who it was or where but people don't do a lot of research when it comes to voting.

[Booshman]

I don't recall saying all black people would vote for blacks over whites.

I'm saying it's entirely probable that he would have lost had that electorate known he was white, given the razor thin margin he won by. Don't pretend there aren't a large number of black people out there who are racist. All you had to do was watch the Detroit Mayoral Elections to know how big a deal race was and has been. They voted a white guy in for the first time in 4 decades and race was all they talked about in the press.

It seems more realistic that they were remarking about him being white, because of the fact that he deliberately marketed himself as black but wasn't.

And the word "large" is subjective. Which is why I asked earlier "to what degree?" To what point is your "large" effective? Something empirical now. Go. Or were you simply interested in throwing out some vague and unmeasurable notion to solidify your pretty sounding theory?

[anyaka21]

It seems more realistic that they were remarking about him being white, because of the fact that he deliberately marketed himself as black but wasn't.

And the word "large" is subjective. Which is why I asked earlier "to what degree?" To what point is your "large" effective? Something empirical now. Go. Or were you simply interested in throwing out some vague and unmeasurable notion to solidify your pretty sounding theory?

well, if the current president can be used as an example, 96% of the african american voting block voted for him. And even if it wasn't that large of percentage for this guy, remember, he only won by 24 votes.

[Booshman]

well, if the current president can be used as an example, 96% of the african american voting block voted for him. And even if it wasn't that large of percentage for this guy, remember, he only won by 24 votes.

The same president who's a part of the political affiliation, that has constantly gotten a similarly high percentage of the black vote, when they've had white candidates?

[Åmbulance]

How is this not criminal? Because he never actually said he was black? Seems like, fraud.

[Sicarus]

What's next, vote for whoever has the nicest tie ?

You mean you don't?

This is hilarious, especially considering the voters are predominantly black.

[anyaka21]

The same president who's a part of the political affiliation, that has constantly gotten a similarly high percentage of the black vote, when they've had white candidates?

personally, I love it. If he did get elected because people thought he was (without doing their own research) then they got what they got.

[Cthulhu 2020]

An entire history of white guys being in office clearly isn't indicative of race voting.

A few black guys make it in, "look, they're voting based on race! How terrible!"

[Aeluron Lightsong]

No, it just means you're stupid for other reasons

I kid...sort of

I don't think I'll vote in 2016. At least.....so far.

[Deleted]

Pretty sure they didn't vote based on race, since the person they were voting against (the incumbent) was also black.



And on the internet where most cries of racism come from these days, where it's always "Open Season on Straight White Males", I'm inclined to agree.

You clearly do not understand. If he was not black he would have lost the black vote.